To honor the 50th anniversary of the University of California at Berkeley’s Center for Japanese Studies, the university’s Japanese Graduate & Researchers Society had a pretty unusual idea. They decided to get together, dress like ninjas using dime-store costumes, and make the world’s largest California roll. With a little help from the Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute, they’ve managed to do just that, rolling a 330-foot California roll.
That’s a whole lot of salmon! Specifically, 180 pounds of fish. Plus another 200 pounds of dried rice, 80 pounds of avocado, and another 80 pounds of cucumber. Don’t worry, vegetarians, you weren’t left out. The last 15 feet of the California roll was made of tofu!
Aside from honoring the Center for Japanese Studies, the Japanese Graduate & Researchers Society had other motivation for their unusual feat of rolling. It’s all part of their plan to honor Japan in the lead-up to a gathering of university Japanese department chairs. For the Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute, it’s all a part of their plan to raise awareness of the Alaskan sustainable salmon fishing industry, which uses scientific means to track fish populations and has the most environmentally-friendly fishing policy in the nation.
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